Trump appears to call for Huma Abedin, ex-Clinton aide, to go to jail

David Jackson |
USA TODAY

6:17 pm CST January 2, 2018

According to a new report, Huma Abedin forwarded sensitive government information to her own personal account.

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WASHINGTON – President Trump appeared to call for imprisonment of former State Department aide Huma Abedin over her email practices as he once again blasted his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

A few of those emails contained classified information. The FBI discovered those emails while investigating Weiner for sexting with a minor. The bureau reopened the probe into Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of State to review the tranche but did not recommend charges against either Clinton or Abedin.

Trump's tweet Tuesday appears to have been inspired by a report in The Daily Caller claiming that Abedin "forwarded sensitive State Department emails, including passwords to government systems, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single Yahoo account was hacked."

While assailing "the Deep State," Trump did not note that the Justice Department is currently run by his appointees.

He also did not specify what should be done about former FBI director James Comey, whom he fired in May; Comey later said Trump dismissed him because he refused to squelch the FBI's Russia investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Elsewhere on Twitter, critics assailed Trump's apparent call to jail someone who has not even been charged with a crime, saying it's the kind of thing dictators do.

Calling on the law enforcement apparatus of the government you lead to investigate your political rivals is for the likes of Erdogan & Duterte, not America’s President. Calling DOJ names—well, that’s for middle schoolers and AM talk radio hosts.

"Calling on the law enforcement apparatus of the government you lead to investigate your political rivals is for the likes of Erdogan & Duterte, not America’s President," tweeted Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics. "Calling DOJ names—well, that’s for middle schoolers and AM talk radio hosts."